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Confessions Of A Young American Housewife
[Retro Seduction Cinema]
1974; color
Directed by Joe Sarno
Starring: Rebecca Brooke, Chris Jordan, Jennifer Welles & Eric Edwards
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I'm not sure the swinging '70s were actually as swinging as what's depicted in Confessions Of A Young American Housewife, but I'll be damned if this ultra-sleazy slice of Sarnocity doesn't throw down the gauntlet as one of the swingin-est movies ever. Our story revolves around the sexual shenanigans of a pair of married next-door neighbors, Carol & Eddie and Ann & Pete. This over-sexed foursome swap on almost a nightly basis, all in the same room, with additional lesbian and two-on-one permutations thrown into the mix. Things are barreling along just fine until Carol's mom, Jennifer, comes to town for a visit. Apparently Jennifer's been a widow for quite some time, and Carol wishes she's find somebody. There's also some sort of unspoken weirdness between Carol and her mom but that doesn't really play itself out until almost two-thirds of the way into the film. From the moment Jennifer walks through the door though, it's all eyes - and eventually hands, lips and everything else - on mommy dearest. Y'see, Jennifer is the prototypical MILF, and everyone she meets wants to screw her. She seems ignorant to most of it until she gets a gander at her daughter and son-in-law's lifestyle. Then, transformed into a veritable nympho machine, she leaves no sexual stone unturned and all her partners completely worn out. Along the line she develops a serious crush on the grocery delivery guy. (Who, it turns out, is single because his wife left him for another dude.) Over an excruciatingly long series of walks through the park / awkward talks she begins to get into a serious relationship with him; while still fucking Ann and Eddie on the side. When she decides to move in with delivery guy (I don't think his name is mentioned more than once in the movie) the original foursome all feel a sense of loss in different ways. And horniness, in the same way. The bonus 12-minute interview with director Sarno also featured in this package sheds quite a bit of light not only on the movie itself but the motivation / inspiration behind it, making it practically required viewing to round out the "experience." The second bonus disc in this release is an audio one, featuring the original music from the film by the late Jack Justis. Unfortunately, Justis' harpsichord and acoustic guitar noodling is so unmemorable not only do I not recall any of it from the film, I find myself missing - for the first time ever, I might add - the cheesy whitened up disco-funk of '70s porn.
—the Kommandant
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